10 Platform engineering predictions for 2026 (4 minute read)
Platform engineering is predicted to transform from a competitive advantage to a fundamental requirement by 2026. The role is being fundamentally redefined by AI, security-by-design, and integrated FinOps. This shift will see AI agents become first-class platform citizens orchestrating subsystems and platforms serving as primary reviewers for AI-generated infrastructure code to ensure safety.
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Stop writing if statements for your CLI flags (5 minute read)
CLI option relationships should be expressed directly in the parser definition rather than enforced with runtime if checks. Encoding these constraints with value-based branching (such as Optique's conditional() pattern) makes the relationships part of the inferred TypeScript types, eliminating separate validation logic and catching errors at compile time.
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What is a build system, anyway? (11 minute read)
Build systems execute dependency-tracked transformations from inputs to outputs, caching rule results so that only stale parts are recomputed during incremental builds while preserving correctness relative to a clean build. They revolve around rules and dependency graphs, track inputs to detect when outputs are outdated, and vary along dimensions like declared vs. traced dependencies, applicative vs. monadic graphs, inter- vs. intra-process execution, determinism and hermeticity, remote caching, and execution scheduling.
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Beads (GitHub Repo)
Beads, a graph-based memory system for AI coding agents, has been updated to version 0.20.1 with collision-resistant hash-based IDs, which eliminates merge conflicts and enables reliable multi-agent workflows. This system provides agents with enhanced long-term planning and organization by acting as a distributed database powered by Git.
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Uncloud (GitHub Repo)
Uncloud, a new lightweight clustering and container orchestration tool, helps developers deploy and manage web applications across diverse infrastructure without Kubernetes' operational complexity. It features a unique peer-to-peer architecture, eliminating a central control plane and ensuring cluster operations remain functional even if some machines go offline.
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Terraform CDK Sunset Notice (GitHub Repo)
Terraform CDK (CDKTF) was sunset and archived on December 10, as the project did not achieve product-market fit. Hashicorp is shifting focus to Terraform core. Users are encouraged to migrate to standard Terraform and HCL, or AWS CDK if integrated. A command is available to help generate compatible configuration files.
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GRC Engineers: The Role DevOps Needs to Regain Balance (5 minute read)
DevOps often sidelined governance, leaving automation without accountability, and the emerging GRC Engineer role restores balance by embedding policy, compliance, and telemetry directly into CI/CD workflows. With tools like Azure Policy and GitHub-based enforcement already available, organizations succeed when engineers gain authority to codify governance and integrate it as core engineering work.
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Visualizing Target Relabeling Rules in Prometheus 3.8.0 (2 minute read)
Prometheus 3.8.0 adds a relabeling visualizer that displays each transformation applied to a discovered target's labels, highlighting changes and showing whether the target is kept or dropped. This stepwise view simplifies debugging and helps identify misconfigurations in relabeling rules.
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